This is how the “Children of God” faction of the Aragua Train gang operated in Peru: 60 victims of sexual exploitation rescued

Climbing walls, leaning on ladders; climbing the four floors of a building and breaking locks and doors. For example, Peruvian police surprised a faction of the Tren called the Aragua gang ‘The children of God”.

The massive operation was deployed early on Thursday, December 28, 2023, in Lima and simultaneously in other cities in that country.

The operation, supervised by the Public Prosecution Service, resulted in the arrest of 21 criminals, members of “Los Hijos de Dios.”

With the fall of this group of nationals, authorities have managed to rescue at least sixty victims of sexual exploitation, Diario Perú 21 reports.

That faction has been labeled as bloody for months.

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The operation was carried out at 14 points in five regions of Peru, as well as in several prisons, RPP reported.

The “Children of God” gang – they added – operated mainly in districts such as San Juan de Miraflores, Villa María del Triunfo and Villa El Salvador, south of Lima, the capital.

Victims of sexual exploitation “were charged up to 20,000 soles (about $5,370),” Peru 21 published.

In the same newspaper they announced that they had “found a torture house in Chiclayo.” At this point, Panamericana indicated that “the authorities have found graves in Chiclayo where the bodies of people who were murdered for refusing to pay the money demanded by these criminals have been found.”

Last Thursday’s mega operation “was carried out in Lima, Lambayeque, Junín, Huancavelica, Ica, Ucayali, Pasco and Tacna,” La República pointed out.

One of the largest arrests took place in a four-story building at the intersection of Canevaro and Las Mercedes avenues in San Juan de Miraflores, the Andina agency described.

The Children of God would have communal graves to bury women because they refused to pay quotas.

Panamericana TV authorities

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For RPP, prosecutor César Changa, member of the Second Public Prosecution Service for Organized Crime, indicated that ‘Los Hijos de Dios’ mainly focuses on three crimes: human trafficking, sexual exploitation and extortion.

In May 2013, they reported in Infobae that “the assignment to the so-called ‘Children of God’ would go beyond abusing sex workers (…) They would have a more macabre function: ending the lives of everyone in the worst conditions.” possible way.” crosses the path of the ‘Aragua train’.

‘Los Hijos de Dios’, EFE reported citing local media, “is composed mainly of Venezuelan citizens, but also has Peruvian members, and the operation also aims at the arrest of the leader and key lieutenants.”

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The prisoners, the Andina Agency reported, “worked in the country as square bosses responding to leaders within prisons.”

In one of the houses, they reported, “a man was arrested who acted as a square boss where the prostitution of women from other countries was carried out with the promise of giving them work in restaurants or nightclubs, but once in Peru they were threatened with forced to death into prostitution.”

According to General Carlos Malaver, anti-trafficking director of Peru’s National Police, a woman has been arrested “accused of collecting extortion from victims of sexual exploitation in southern Lima.”

“One of the people in charge of collecting money from female victims of exploitation in this area has been arrested here. She is not just a Peruvian woman They impose quotas on sex workers, but also on trans youth” he explained, according to RPP and EFE.

Police deployment continues. “We are carrying out an operation in Chiclayo, Pangoas and Lima, where 21 people have already been arrested, and nine cells are also being raided in (the prisons of) Challapalca, Ancón, Chincha and Cochamarca,” prosecutor Jorge Chávez said. , coordinator of the specialized prosecutors against organized crime. (JO)